Thanks, n/a... lots of nearby climbing, but FAR too many people... And how the hell does anyone afford to live out here? $4.00 for a bag of bagels, $7.00 for Yuengling Black and Tan (where you can even find it), $4.00/gal for gas... Just visiting, for now... working on a guidebook for Smoke Hole Canyon, which will include Franklin... imagine, a guide to Franklin by someone who actually put up routes there!

Thanks, n/a... lots of nearby climbing, but FAR too many people... And how the hell does anyone afford to live out here? $4.00 for a bag of bagels, $7.00 for Yuengling Black and Tan (where you can even find it), $4.00/gal for gas... Just visiting, for now... working on a guidebook for Smoke Hole Canyon, which will include Franklin... imagine, a guide to Franklin by someone who actually put up routes there!

Yeah, it's pricey but damn beautiful country. Glad to hear you and Cindy are together and going strong. I'm pretty sure I briefly met her at the crag and she seemed like a really sweet, sincere person. It would have been not too long after you started spending time together but I'm pretty sure it was her. Either way, give her my best.

Oh and a dedicated guide for that region sounds like a fantastic idea. There is soooo much quality rock hiding all over the place. I call dibs on one if the initial run is limited!

There is soooo much quality rock hiding all over the place. I call dibs on one if the initial run is limited!

The Publisher is talking 3000 copies... bet we can find you one in there some place :)

Miss Cindy certainly remembers you and says "Hi!"

And the rock doesn't have to hide very hard... there's a limestone cliff band even taller and better than Franklin's River's Bend on Cave Mountain, a cliff that you can see for miles in every direction, on NFS land. but the hike takes you more than ten minutes from the car, there are no groomed trails and only two or three bolts on the whole wall and there's no scene... so I doubt that many people besides myself, my former gf/climbing partner Melissa Wine, Troy Johnson, Mike Fisher, his buddy Ju-ju have ever climbed there.

There is soooo much quality rock hiding all over the place. I call dibs on one if the initial run is limited!

The Publisher is talking 3000 copies... bet we can find you one in there some place :)

Miss Cindy certainly remembers you and says "Hi!"

And the rock doesn't have to hide very hard... there's a limestone cliff band even taller and better than Franklin's River's Bend on Cave Mountain, a cliff that you can see for miles in every direction, on NFS land. but the hike takes you more than ten minutes from the car, there are no groomed trails and only two or three bolts on the whole wall and there's no scene... so I doubt that many people besides myself, my former gf/climbing partner Melissa Wine, Troy Johnson, Mike Fisher, his buddy Ju-ju have ever climbed there.

Do you mean the band at the top of the mountain, that you can see from Eagle Rock looking northeast? I thought that was on private property? Is it NFS land?